A mobile phone based alarm system for supervising vital parameters in free moving rats.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Study protocols involving experimental animals often require the monitoring of different parameters not only in anesthetized, but also in free moving animals. Most animal research involves small rodents, in which continuously monitoring parameters such as temperature and heart rate is very stressful for the awake animals or simply not possible. Aim of the underlying study was to monitor heart rate, temperature and activity and to assess inflammation in the heart, lungs, liver and kidney in the early postoperative phase after experimental cardiopulmonary bypass involving 45 min of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in rats. Besides continuous monitoring of heart rate, temperature and behavioural activity, the main focus was on avoiding uncontrolled death of an animal in

SUBMITTER: Kellermann K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3305422 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature